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This is where dreams-dreams, do you understand-come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.
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Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.
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When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.
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Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
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Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons.
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.
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I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror to God, as it is, when we really see it, a horror to ourselves. This I believe to be a fact: and I notice that the holier a man is, the more fully he is aware of that fact.
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A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a lunatic on a level with a man who says he's a poached egg or else he'd be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.
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we follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept, and sorrowed for their lack of faith (though some thus interpret) but because death, the punishment of sin, is even more horrible in his eyes than in ours.
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My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?
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As image and apprehension are in an organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.
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The more you obey your conscience, the more your conscience will demand of you.
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Legal and economic equality are absolutely necessary remedies for the Fall, and protection against cruelty.
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.
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Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.
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I wrote the books I should have liked to read. That's always been my reason for writing. People won't write the books I want, so I have to do it for myself.
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It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
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Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows.
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That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.
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